Start your 7-day Starter trial

Starter can be tried for seven days from checkout. The card is required up front and it is charged only if the trial is still running when those seven days end. Pro bills from the first day. What each plan includes, line by line, is the comparison table, not this page.

Card required, no charge for seven days, cancel any time before day 7 for zero cost.

Starter has a 7-day free trial at checkout. Pro does not — you can upgrade to Pro at any point, but Pro bills from the first day.

This is separate from the 14 free days a new shop gets at sign-up, which need no card at all. See Free trial details.

Steps

Open Dashboard → Billing.
Click Start Starter trial.
Enter a card in Stripe's checkout.
Confirm.

Your shop is on Starter immediately, marked Trialing in the billing panel. The card is not charged until day 7.

Why a card if it is free

Because it is a subscription with its first payment deferred, not a free period. That is what makes it continuous — nothing lapses on day 7 and nothing has to be re-set-up. If you would rather not give a card yet, use the 14 days you already have and subscribe at the end of them.

Canceling before day 7

Open Dashboard → Billing → Manage in Stripe → Cancel. You keep access until the trial ends, then the shop moves to a limited state where your calendar is read-only and the public page shows "Booking paused". You can re-subscribe any time to unpause.

After day 7

If you do not cancel, the card is charged for whichever interval you picked at checkout — $90 for the year on yearly billing, which is the default, or $9 for the month — and renews on the same date.

Do not change the plan mid-trial

Stripe treats any change to a trialing subscription as the end of the trial and invoices you immediately. That includes switching interval and adding the SMS add-on.

Wait until day 7 has passed, then change it from Billing. It is the one genuine trap in the billing flow, and it is Stripe's behaviour rather than ours.